Qumran site: The Scriptorium

Qumran cave 4 (southwest of the Qumran site)

Search the full bibliography

Since the Center began in 1995, it has maintained a weekly online bibliography
of the latest in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship. The Current
Bibliography is posted every Monday. The cumulative Online
Bibliography now features more than 21,000 entries; we are gradually expanding
the database to encompass entries dating from the beginnings of scrolls
research. Search the full bibliography!

Take a Virtual Qumran Tour

Orion’s Virtual Qumran features a video tour of the site led by
archaeologist Professor Jodi Magness, of the University of North Carolina, as
well as information pages on the Scrolls and the people who produced them.
TAKE the Tour!

More Orion Center News

Now Published! The Religious Worldviews Reflected in the
Dead Sea
Scrolls

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of
the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 28–30 May, 2013. Edited by Ruth A. Clements,
Menahem Kister and Michael Segal. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 127. Leiden:
Brill, 2018.
https://brill.com/view/title/39295

Scholarships and Internships

The Orion Center offers scholarships for masters and doctoral students who
wish to conduct Scrolls-related research in Jerusalem.
Application deadlines are usually in the spring. For
application instructions, click HERE.

The Center also offers the opportunity for students already learning in Jerusalem
to volunteer as interns at the Center. For
more details, click HERE.

Dead Sea Scrolls Online

The Israel Museum and the Israel Antiquities Authority have put online searchable digital
images of many of the scrolls in their collections. The Cambridge University Library has
done the same with
its manuscripts of the Damascus Document and the Aramaic Levy Document. Click
here to access these collections.

Honors and Awards

Prof. Michael Segal, head of the Orion Academic Committee, was elected Dean of the HU
Faculty of Humanities, beginning October 2018

Prof Paula Fredriksen, member of the Orion Academic Committee, was awarded an HU
honorary doctorate on June 11, 2018

Prof. Elisha Qimron, Ben-Gurion University, was honored with the Israel Prize on May
19, 2018